Yeah, I was taking German language classes at that time. Both of my instructors, Die Frauen Mast und Schmidt had their share of stories of sheiss that had gone down back in their respective days. One had survived Dresdens' firebombing by leaping into the Danube(?), the other had walked from the Polish/German territories with her family to get into Allied territory before the Russians took control. '89 meant a whole lot to them.

Brilliant!!
Adminstrative judo, subverting their intentions, thinking for yourself under a conformist regime!!

My self study method has always been to make up my own projects and then figure out how to do them. Maya has the built-in help system and tutorials, and then you're only a google away from plenty of you-tube tuts as well.  Autodesk has a forum called "The Area" for peer-to-peer help, and I could probably put you in touch with at least one relative expert on Maya (<-not me at all, Maya's inteface has completely beaten me, I don't go there anymore) if you ever get truly stuck on something.

We had a great time filming this stuff in the city Yesterday. First we drove around getting through-the window-stuff and otherwise screwing around, to the tune of 10 gigs/30minutes. My takes add up to 4.3 gigs, and we had to quit because-- like the dumbass I am-- I forgot to grab the spare batteries for the borrowed T3i. Then we hit base camp and grabbed iJim's Panasonic rig to shoot his takes...I have no idea how much data he's got from that, but I handheld a little Sony handicam for BTS material, over 25 minutes and 3 gigs.

Most amazing note on the day:
Neither one of us ever farted in the car, in spite of the Qdoba luncheon.

PS Teague, not sure I can improve on my parts but it could be reshot...I was just starting to flow when the battery died.

PPS Jim is a helluva director...I can't say enough nice things.  That's why I had to kill him...

PM'ed,
but I also got to thinking it might help if each of the colors could chat amongst ourselves about our delivery, appearance, shades of shirt color, hats, glasses, additional props, etc.  But for that we'd need to know who we all are...so is that info verboten? or can we see a partial cast list somehow?

Ow!  Pricey lesson in cynicism. Happens all the time around me, a van will pull up next to you at a stop-light and offer you whatever stolen/worthless goods they have to fence.  Legitimate businessmen don't operate out of their vehicles, however flashy.

It could still mean that anyway. Just saying.